Archives - 15 November 2017, Wednesday

Solar manufacturers are being battered by higher costs and smaller margins after an unexpected shortage of a critical raw material. Prices of polysilicon, the main component of photovoltaic cells, spiked as much as 35 percent in the past four months after environmental regulators in C...

Within the next month, energy watchers expect the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to act on an order from Energy Secretary Rick Perry that would create new pricing rules for certain power plants that can store fuel on site to support grid resilience. This initiative seeks to prot...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf this week signed into law a provision that will support strong renewable energy credit (REC) prices in the state. According to the governor’s office, the legislation requires that renewable energy facilities only generate RECs if the power from the facility ...

ECN said that the existing KNMI North Sea Wind atlas cataloguing wind information up to an altitude of 200m will be extended to include information from the past three years to support wind energy production estimates of wind farms now in the planning phase. The new atlas will be comp...

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals may pledge to achieve universal access to electricity by 2030, but nearly half of Africans lack access to energy. With inconsistent or non-existent access to the grid, solar services in Africa have taken off as nearly 10 percent of the c...

Vestas Wind Systems A/S lost about a fifth of its stock market value after the Danish company said it was squeezing less profit out of sales of equipment and services compared with a year ago because of increased competition. Before last week’s plunge, the shares had risen 15 percent ...

Federal investments that spur improved energy efficiency are under threat. The administration and the House of Representatives have proposed drastic cuts to the Department of Energy’s programs in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Efficiency technologies and ...

Posted on 15/11/2017 by Nick Sharpe A week ago, the Supreme Court rejected RSPB Scotland’s application for permission to appeal the decision of the Scottish appeal court to uphold the consents awarded to offshore wind farms off Scotland’s east coast. In this blog, Scottish Renewables ...

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Alaska has reached an agreement with Chinese state-owned firms to develop liquefied natural gas (LNG). The $43bn deal was made between Alaska Gasline Development (AGDC), China Petrochemical (Sinopec), CIC Capital, and the Bank of China (BOC). The agreement sees the state and country j...

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To illustrate the potential risks and benefits of this sort of contract, I simulated what would happen over the 20 year life of these contracts for a household using 8000 kWh a year, in a scenario where utility rates increase only slowly (at 1% a year.) In this case, the NRG Community...